Event 41 - $1500 Limit Hold'em, Day 3 of 3, 596 entries Robert Nehorayan came from second at the end of Day 2 to finish alone on the table at the end of Day 3.
With the $173K first prize, Nehorayan almost tripled his biggest previous biggest cash achieved 11 years ago when he finished $146th in the Main Event.
His final victim, Kevin Song, won his only bracelet 21 years ago (when Tikay was a lad) and David Gee ended third.
The final table were all American except for Oleg Chebotarev, the Russian finishing 7th.
Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 230 entries Event 42 has reached a final table, and another WSOP veteran is well in contention, 1998 ME winner Scotty Nguyen. Scotty baby leads defending event champion James Calderaro and Shaun Deeb.
Last UK representative, Adam Owen, finished 30th for $41K.
Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1248 entrants Two days down, one (at least) to go with 34 players coming back to fight for the bracelet.
Seth Davies is the chip leader, closely followed by Jeff Hakim and Javier Fernandez, with a distinct gap to the rest of the field.
James Rann is still running well, just outside the top 10, while there are a number of former bracelet holders still in - last year's Player of the Year Chris Ferguson, David Peters, Ryan Laplante & Andreas Klatt.
Event 44 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, 109 entries Nine Day 2 entries boosted the field to 109, with 13 of them making Day 3.
Michael Noori was at or near the top of the chip standings most of the day, and ended it with a sizeable lead over Christopher Kruk and Randy Ohel.
Farzad Bonyadi is still alive trying to match his mother's bracelet a few days ago, and another former bracelet holder Calvin Anderson (one of the Day 2 entrants) is still there too, albeit with a shortish stack.
No Brits, Luke Schwartz's position two off the money being the best the UK could get.
Event 45 - $1K Big-Blind Ante NLH (30 minute levels), Day 1 of 2, 1712 entrants Fast and furious action meant just 41 players will come back for the second and final day of Event 45.
Steven Wolansky bagged the biggest stack with 620K chips ahead of DJ Mackinnon's 532K and Michael Wang's 335K.
Elliott Peterman is the highest ranked Brit in 10th, while Matthew Hunt, Conor Beresford and Andrew Tang are clustered around the high 20s.
Others include two men who've had deep runs in the ME - Joseph Cheong (3rd, 2010) and Martin Staszko (3rd 2011) and three well known female players - Kathy Liebert, Kelly Minkin and Esther Taylor.
Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 1 of 3, 402 entries 152 of the 402 navigated a day of potenial split pots, aiming for Tikay's favourites, "Scoopio".
Sergio Ramirez collected the largest Day 1 stack, with only Eric Rodawig anywhere near him in terms of chips.
Paul Jackson has a decent stack and lies in 32nd, and the only other Brits through are the West Country duo of Ben Dobson and Robert Price
2005 Main Event winner Joe Hachem has been relatively quiet in recent years, but has made it through Day 1, as has Daniel Negreanu, Kate Hoang, Julien Martini, Robert Mizrachi, Marcel Luske, Perry Friedman, and Barry Greenstein.
Event 47 - $565 WSOP.com Online NLH, Unlimited Re-entry, 1 Day Event The online PLO event went to Matthew Mendez who collected $135K for over 15 hours work.
The only non-American on the FT, Marton Czuczor was second and Anthony Zinno third.
Scott Clements was multi-tasking this event plus the mixed high/low event above, he busted that short of the money but finished 18th in the online event for $4451 to at least make some profit on the day.
Flight D of Event 6, The Giant, 1167 entrants The fourth attempt of qualifying for the later stages of the Giant saw 63 players book their ticket.
Duy Ho is a nice short name with a nice big stack, and Ian Pelz isn't that bad either. Alice Sicconi holds third place.
Four British players qualified, Andrew Wilson, Katie Swift, Michael Bucher and the seemingly omnipresent Adam Owen.
One semi-notable player through is the 12th-placed finisher from last year's ME, Richard Dubini from Argentina.
The Day 2 for this event is next Saturday, 30th June.
To Start Today Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s) Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, 3 Day Event
Jinx! - James Rann out in 23rd when his Aces get busted by Andre Haneberg's AQ suited. All the chips went in pre-flop, with James a huge favourite, bit Haneberg flopped the flush draw which completed on the river.
Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 230 entries 12 months ago, Ben Yu beat Shaun Deeb heads-up to win the $10K 2-7 Triple Draw event. The two double bracelet holders clashed again here with the High Roller PLO bracelet at stake, and this time Deeb got his revenge.
The $1.4 million prize is by far Deeb's highest ever cash, beating his previous highest of $318K (although he did once win a seat to the $1million One Drop in a satellite).
Former ME winner Scotty Nguyen was third, James Calderado 4th and Jason Koon 5th.
By running this deep, neither Yu nor Deeb could compete for that $10K 2-7 Triple Draw this year, more of that anon.
Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1248 entrants As suspected, this one wasn't done and dusted within the regulation 3 days and 6 players will come back to fight for the win on Day 4.
Chris Ferguson holds a large chip lead overnight, almost double the stack of Israel's Timur Margolin.
The rest of the FT isn't too shabby either - Ismael Bojang, Michael Marder, Dylan Linde & Ryan Laplante.
As briefly mentioned last night, James Rann was unlucky to bust in 23rd place for a little over $15K.
Event 44 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 3 of 3, 109 entries He'd never played a 2-7 Triple Draw tournament before, but it must surely be Nicholas Seiken's favourite game now!
Having only previously played the format in mixed-games, he got the better of another mixed-games name, Randy Ohel heads-up, with Kristijonas Andrulis third.
Behind them, Farzad Bonyadi's quest to follow his mother in winning a 2018 bracelet finished in 4th, Matt Glantz was 5th and top Brit, Jason Gray (who I missed in yesterday's roundup), was 6th ($46K)
Event 45 - $1K Big-Blind Ante NLH (30 minute levels), Day 2 of 2, 1712 entrants Just seven hours of Day 2 action needed, and the denoument came in a hurry as Spaniard Martin Prats Garcia knocked out all the last 5 opponents in just 14 hands.
First he came from behind to bust Gregory Worner, then his A-10 dominated Mark Schluter's 10-8 which never improved. Shortly afterwards he picked up A-K and was able to call Michael Wang's shove with pocket threes, a King on the flop sealing the elimination, and heads-up with Matthew Hunt lasted just 3 hands.
Hunt raised and took the first hand pre-flop, Garcia shoved with 9-5 on the second hand with Hunt calling with A-2, neither improved and Hunt doubled up and then on the third hand, it got all the way to the river before the chips went in, the board being 5-4-7-9-8 with 3 diamonds. Hunt had 10-6 for a 7-card straight, but Garcia had the diamonds and it was all over.
That's at least the third runner-up finish for British players this Series, to go along with 2 bracelets and several other very deep runs.
Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 2 of 3, 402 entries Fifteen players survive after Day 2 of this one, all guaranteed at least $7K for their troubles.
Ian Shaw doesn't have a ton of recorded cashes, with just 2 WSOP scores and 4 in total according to Hendon Mob, but the Mexico resident is top dog after Day 2
Tyler Groth sits in second after eliminating Daniel Negreanu and Colombia's Daniel Ospina makes a 1-3 for Latin America.
Hani Awad won this very event two years ago and is in with a chance of a repeat, and other bracelet holders Cyndy Violette, Brendan Taylor and Eric Rodawig are also in the hunt for more jewellery.
Two GB names took some cash home, Paul Jackson was the penultimate Day 2 elimnation for 17th place and nearly $6K while Robert Price went out in 34th for $4577.
Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s) The first flight of the Monster Stack is in the books with 723 players through to Sunday's Day 2.
The 1A chip leader is midlander Kfir Ivgi who has been picking up cashes across the UK for a few years but only collected his first US cash a few days ago in a Rio Daily Deepstack.
With over 700 players through, I'm not going to list all the GB qualifiers, but they do include Daniel Corbett, Ben Farrell, Samuel Welbourne, Michael Kane, John Eames, Simon Deadman, Jerome Bradpiece & Paul Newey
Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 1 of 3, 439 entries so far Already up on last year's field size, with of course late reg still open with just under half the field bagging chips at the end of the night.
Ryan Hughes holds the lead ahead of Majid Yahyaei and Veselin Karakitukov.
Ben Lamb made the FT of last year's Main Event (and won a $10K PLO tournament at the Aria a few days ago) and he's carried that form through here lying 4th overnight.
Phillip Mighall and Stephen Chidwick have both bagged top-20 stacks, Richard Gryko is inside the Top 50 while Alex Lindop is nursing a smaller stack.
A few names I've picked out - brothers Michael (11th) and Robert (38th) Mizrachi, Mike Leah, Brandon Shack-Harris, Sylvain Loosli and Eoghan O'Dea plus a guy with a long name if not a big name, Veerachai Vongxaiburana
To Start Today Event 50 - $1500 Razz, 3 Day Event
plus another starting flight of the $565 Giant PLO.
Sorry it's a bit late, WSOP site has been very slow for me today.
Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1248 entrants Depending on which WSOP update you believe, Timur Margolin has become either the eighth or ninth player from Israel to win a WSOP gold bracelet.
On the extra Day 4, Ryan Laplante and Dylan Linde busted early before a action-packed session of 4-handed play took place. A number of double-ups occured with all four players being the ones at risk at one point or another.
Margolin eventually got the better of Chris Ferguson, and then Michael Marder, leaving him heads up with Ismael Bojang. More swings and swongs (copyright T Kendall 2005) before Israel got the better of Germany with Margolin taking $507K and Bojang $313K.
Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 2 of 3, 402 entries Coming back from an 8:1 chip lead heads-up, David Broookshire added a WSOP bracelet to a circuit ring beating Brandon Taylor heads-up
The key hand was a Stud hand where Brookshire already had the low end tied up and filled a flush on 7th street to scoopio (copyright T Kendall 2006). After that he moved relentless onwards and less than an hour later the win (and $214K) was his.
The Latin-American duo of Daniel Ospina and Ian Shaw finished third and fourth.
Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 1B of 5, total of 6260 entries What's that coming over the hill? It's another starting flight of the Monster Stack.
Jeffrey Trudeau isn't a member of Canada's politicial first family but a poker player from Florida and he bagged the biggest 1B stack. Shalev Halfa completed a good day for Israel and is lying second and Sami Ruston third.
Some GB qualifiers among the 1362 through - Ben Jackson, Marc Foggin, Dan Laming, Damien Le Goff, Stephen Chidwick, Steven Watts, Stuart Rutter, Steven Warburton and James Rann. Oh and someone by the name of Natterley (copyright T Kendall 2007) Bromley
With just a week to the Main Event, 2015 ME winner Joe McKeehan is looking to add to his 2 FTs already this summer and he's got lots of chips here.
Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 476 entries so far Down to 37 and despite and up-and-down day, Day 1 chip leader Ryan Hughes is back in the lead just in time to bag up at the end of Day 2.
Rep Porter lies in second and William Kopp third. Others still in include Scotty Nguyen, Ryan Laplante, Anton Morgenstern and Mike Leah.
Richard Gryko appears to be the only British name through, despite losing a huge hand to Hughes.
One hand that had people taking notice was a confrontation between Brandon Shack-Harris and Joe Hachem, the Aussie who flopped Aces full, yet was behind to Shack-Harris' flopped quads. As live poker isn't fixed, Hachem didn't improved and was busto (copyright T Kendall 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014....)
Event 50 - $1500 Razz, Day 1 of 3, 389 entrants Shalom. That's not a reference to yet another successful run by an Israeli player, but the surname of Victor Shalam who is top razzer after Day 1.
He leads Richard Sklar, John Beringer and 115 other hopefuls into Day 2.
Adam Owen hasn't had a mention today (until now), he's 6th overnight and Benny Glaser 11th but they appear to be the only 2 Brits.
Julien Martini won Event 4 (seems like ages ago now) but he's involved with this one as are Shaun Deeb and John Hennigan (currently 1st and 2nd in the Player of the Year race), two former razz winners (Max Pescatori and Ted Forrest) and multiple-bracelet winners such as Phil Hellmuth, Brandon Cantu, Chris Bjorin and Barry Greenstein.
Event 11 $365 Giant PLO. The penultimate flight saw 33 more names guarantee progression to day 2. Heroico Aguiluz was the hero of the day and was the chip leader with Aussie Daniel Laidlaw and Argentinian Gonzalo Mercade showing better form than their countries World Cup teams in second and third.
Not many recognisable names among the 33, but Matt Stout and Men Nguyen do appear, and so does Linda Iwaniak who has added another cash to her FT in the super seniors event last week.
To Start Today Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 3 Day Event, $500 Bounties Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, 3 Day Event
Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 2 of 5, total of 6260 entries A little over 250 players will return form Day 3 of the Monster Stack, with a double-bracelet winner, Steve Billirakis, in pole position.
He has a lead over Tommy Nguyen and James Stewart, with in 4th place and marked as GB, Raul Manzanares Lozano, who may be one of a group of Spanish players living in the UK.
Daniel Corbett, Robert Heidorn, Jose Auslander, Steven Watts, Richard Pearson, Dean Hutchison are also still involved, all of whom have $5140 locked up and still a dream of first prize of just over a million dollars.
Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 476 entries so far Another event where the first prize is just over a million dollars but this one is a) a lot closer to the end and b) a much bigger buy-in, so the 6 players who've made sure the tournament goes into a unscheduled 4th day have already secured themselves $157K.
Remember yesterday I said Day 1 chip leader Ryan Hughes was also Day 2 chip leader? Well he's slipping. He's only second at the end of Day 3 behind Brandon Shack-Harris and ahead of Loren Klein.
Last Brit standing was Richard Gryko who went out in 16th spot with a slip for $34K to take to the payout desk.
Event 50 - $1500 Razz, Day 2 of 3, 389 entrants Woth players sich as Adam Owen, Dzmitry Urbanovich and Kevin Iacofano among the final 9, it may surprise some to know there's not a single bracelet holder among them.
Iacofano is chip leader, with Michael McKenna and Thomas Taylor second and third.
Shalom. That's not a reference to yet another successful run by an Israeli player, but the surname of Victor Shalam who is top razzer after Day 1.
He leads Richard Sklar, John Beringer and 115 other hopefuls into Day 2.
Benny Glaser finished 44th for $2471 as the only other GB player to cash.
Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 1 of 3, $500 Bounties, 1982 entries With a slight increase in entries above 12 months ago, tbe bubble burst on the last hand of Day 1 so all 298 remaining players have guaranteed themselves $1415 plus any bounties they may accrue.
We have a British name at the top of the chip listings - Alex Whitenstall from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His 198K chips is 20K more than nearest challenger Quyen Hoang and third placed Samuel Miller.
Another British player, Matthew Hunt from Salisbury is also inside the Top 20, while lower down are Aaron Woodcock, Gaurav Assomull, Steven MOrris, Adam Daniel, Oliver Biles, Michael Richardson, Chun Yam, Marc Foggin (another one for Newcastle), Raul Martinez Requena (see xx reference above), Conor Beresford and Daniel Tang.
Not a lot of hugely recognisable names, Marvin Rettenmaier the easiest one to pick out.
Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, Day 1 of 3, 101 entries so far Hmmm, limit Hold'em for $10K? I'll pass thanks but 100 of the WSOP's finest are up for it and surprisingly only 43 of them stick around for Day 2 (maybe to be joined by a few more late entrants).
Michael Moore leads with a decent advantage over Joao Vieira and Nick Schulman.
Benny Glaser can turn his hand to most variants and he's made Day 2, albeit with one of the smaller stacks.
Also still in, Anthony Zinno, Robert Mizrachi, Andre Akkari, Ismael Bojang and Jeff Lisandro, while the smallest Day 1 stack of all belongs to Juha Helppi.
To Start Today Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, 3 Day Event including our very own Tikay. Event 54 - $3K NLH, 3 Day Event
Apologies again for the lateness of the post, it's been too nice weather to be indoors typing results! And it's likely to be late again tomorrow, as there's a charity event I'm likely to be headed to straight after work.
Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 3 of 4, total of 6260 entries 257 players started day 3, with one table Daniel Wojcik of the USA sitting right next to Daniel Wojcik of Canada. What's the chances of that? Perhaps live poker is rigged in different ways to what people thought!
Anyway, 29 of those 257 move on, headed by Vitor Rangel, James Carroll and Harald Sammer. Steve Billirakis who was the youngest ever Las Vegas WSOP winner and Day 2 chip leader is still involved, as is Raul Manzanares Lozano and Daniel Corbett, showing as from Manchester and Blackburn respectively.
Down at the bottom of the listings is David Cabrera Polop, who has the proverbial "chip and a chair", his 20K chips forming just one ante. He'll need to get super lucky to even ladder up (next pay jump at 27)
If you're fans of players with no vowels in their name, Mstr Lynch is your man. He'll come back with about 20BB and look to spin it up early.
Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 3 of 3, 476 entries so far 2016, winner of Event 45 (Mixed NLH/PLO), 2017 winner of event 41 (PLO), 2018 winner of Event 49 (PLO), that's a very nice resume for Loren Klein as he earned his third bracelet in three years.
This one was was a lot bigger than his first two wins (both $1500 events) and he is now the proud possessor of not just a third bracelet but over a million dollars.
Looking back to 2016, Klein also had a deep run in this very event, falling second to Brandon Shack-Harris. Shack-Harris bowed out in 3rd this time, with Rep Porter being the runner-up
Event 50 - $1500 Razz, Day 2 of 3, 389 entrants Good luck if you understood yesterday's update of this one, it appears to have had more typos than the average Grauniad article of the 1980s.
Hopefully it will be better today, reporting the win of self-proclaimed Razz specialist Jay Kwon (as far as I know, no relation to early 2000s rapper J-Kwon).
British mixed-games player Adam Owen went out in 3rd for $52K and Polish player Dzmitry Urbanovich was second for $77K. Kwon by contrast earned almost as much as those two together ($125K)
Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 2 of 3, $500 Bounties, 1982 entries The WSOP were having a bit of a 'mare about the nationalities on the chip listings, showing the first three players as from Eritrea, the US and Iran.
The US, fair enough with Ryan Leng from Illinois in second place. The leader is Ranno Sootla, who is actually from Estonia, and in third place is Jamie O'Conner, showing as from "West Yorkshire, Iran" but is actually Irish.
Lying in 4th is 2013 ME runner-up, Jay Farber while German "Mad" Marvin Rettenmaier has one of the smaller stacks.
No Brits, Alex Whitenstall busted in 41st for $5722.
Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, Day 2 of 3, 114 entries 56 players started Day 2, only 14 were still standing at the end of the day.
Dan Zack is the overnight chip leader, and has a huge stack (more than double his nearest challenger).
That nearest challenger is Nick Schulman, with Anthony Zinno very close behind.
Benny Glaser is the last non-US representative, in the lower middle order.
Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 1 of 3, 935 entries So, first things first, I have to be the bearer of bad news as our very own Tikay has not extended his decent run in WSOP events, losing his stack at some point during Day 1.
Stu Rutter is through though after a very eventful day where he earned a one-level suspension (if that's right that's the biggest penalty I've heard of in years) for "constant mocking" of Phil Hellmuth, and then lost a late big pot to Bryce Yockey, tanking after Yockey shoved until the clock was called, and even then did not act and his hand was declared dead. After that, he will come back with a pretty short stack and will a) need to be on his best behaviour and b) get lucky to double up a few times. Mocking Hellmuth may be as good for the soul as taking the mickey out of present-day Diego Maradona, but I guess there's a time and a place.
That hand put Yockey near the top of the listings, along with the likes of Brad Albrinck, Dustin Pattinson and Eli Elezra.
Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, Bruno Fitoussi, the aforementioned Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson, John Racener, Joseph Cheong, Chris Bjorin and Brandon Cantu make up a quite high quotient of big names for a $1500 event.
Other Brits through include Thomas Cazayous, Warren Colman, Paul Jackson and Peter Charalambous
Event 54 - $3K NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 1 of 3, 1020 entrants A nice field size of over 1000 players, meant that 153 will get paid but with almost 100 more than that qualifying for Day 2 the bubble is still intact.
Braclet winners who will be present and correct for Day 2 include Kathy Liebert, Frank Kassela and Scotty Nguyen, but the biggest stack belongs to Fahredin Mustafov. The Bulgarian has only a small lead over Jordan Young with Canada's Rayan Chamas a bit further behind.
Max Silver lies in 20th spot, Oscar Serradell 36th, and former November Niner James Akenhead is 46th. Adrien Delmas, Paul vas Nunes, Ben Farrell, Steven Warburton, Guillermo Sanchez, Paul Fontan, Soner Osman, Mark Teltscher and Robert Heidorn make up the rest of the GB challenge, but I refer the honourable readers to a previous update, where I posit that some of the GB players are actually Spanish but resident in the UK.
To Start Today Event 55 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), 3 Day Event Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, 3 Day Event
Apologies again for the lateness of the post, it's been too nice weather to be indoors typing results! And it's likely to be late again tomorrow, as there's a charity event I'm likely to be headed to straight after work.
Stu Rutter is through though after a very eventful day where he earned a one-level suspension (if that's right that's the biggest penalty I've heard of in years) for "constant mocking" of Phil Hellmuth,
Loving your work as always FCHD and enjoy the weather, your work is worth the wait.
Hopefully there will be a youtube (or similar) clip available for the Rutter/Hellmuth "banter" so we can judge for ourselves both the quality of it and whether it was level penalty worthy.
Must be a glitch though, surely Tikay is not busto in day 1 of a tourney? Must have been a cooler to get him to play a hand that early.
PS. I think you missed an opportunity for some punnage with mr Foggin from Newcastle.
Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 4 of 4, total of 6260 entries The newest WSOP millionaire is 28-year old Tommy Nguyen with the Canadian coming out on top after a FT that was a big slick shove fest, nine times there was an all-in hand with AK and it being successfull seven of those nine times.
James Carroll was second and Francis Rusnak third, with Daniel Corbett best Brit in 5th after holding the chip lead on and off through the day.
Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 3 of 3, $500 Bounties, 1982 entries The Bounty Hunder has gone into a fourth day with the regulation 3 days unable to separate the final four players.
Ryan Leng had a rollercoaster of a day, but ended it on an upswing to hold the chip lead, reversing the top two places from Day 2 with Ranno Sootla. Christian Nolte is third and 2013 ME runner-up Jay Farber brings up the rear.
Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, Day 3 of 3, 114 entries Hands up who thought Scott Siever had more than one bracelet already? I see quite a lot of hands. Mine would have been up too but it took today for Siever to add his second WSOP gold bracelet.
He took down Event 52 for $296K, a drop in the ocean in his massive tournament and cash winnings, but the bracelet meant a lot to him after not planning to play much WSOP action at the start of the summer. A second place in Event 8 restored the hunger and now three weeks later he has his win. He played the FT wearing a T-shirt bearing the face of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her win was more unlikely than his.
Benny Glaser was the only UK player to cash, finishing 10th for $20K.
Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 935 entries Twenty players remain, and the defending champion in this event, Nathan Gamble, is the chip leader.
Plenty of well known names line up behind Gamble, including Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, Quinn Do, Eli Elezra (all on the same Day 3 table), Bryce Yockey and Bruno Fitoussi.
What we don't have is any UK names - Warren Colman did best for 52nd spot ($4125) while Paul Jackson earned about a grand less for 64th.
Event 54 - $3K NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 2 of 3, 1020 entrants 31 players make Day 3 and the chip listings have an unbalanced look about them.
Jonathan Abdellatif has over 2.7m chips, almost three times as many as his nearest challenger Barry Hutter, and 3.5 times that of third placed Mariano Cruz.
Paul Fontan is the only UK representative and he has the second smallest stack, 125K.
Event 55 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 1 of 3, 1032 teams A little hard to follow who's who in this, all I can say for sure is that 242 teams bagged up for the night, and that 155 will get paid.
The leading team is made up of Juan Ramirez, Isai Coello & Dustin Pattinson.
The WSOP are only showing the team captains on the chip listings but they do include Alex Zeligman from Surrey in 2nd place. He's playing with Jonathan Roux & Daniel Price.
Hopefully a clearer update will be available tomorrow.
Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 1 of 3, 112 entries so far John Hennigan has already won one $10K bracelet (Event 27, the HORSE) and he's on the lookout for a second, a late run giving him the chip lead on Day 1 of the Razz.
He's got Ted Forrest and Per Hildebrand on his heels and another 2018 bracelet winner Julien Martini close behind.
There's just one "GB" shown in the Day 1 chip report, attached to the name of Jason Gray in 13th spot, out of the 42 qualifiers
To Start Today Event 57 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, 3 Day Event Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, 3 Day Event
Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 4 of 3, $500 Bounties, 1982 entries A fourth day of action was needed to decide the bounty hunter, and it was decided in favour of the start-of-day leader Ryan Leng.
The man he's been basically neck and neck with for two days, Ranno Sootla from Estonia was his defeated heads-up and Jay Farber went out in third.
Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 3 of 3, 935 entries Talk about cutting it fine. There were just two minutes and 30 seconds left in Day 3 play when Joey Couden scooped Bruno Fitoussi to win his first bracelet and $244K. He has previously made a couple of FTs but never really challenged for the bracelet, but that's all changed now.
There were plenty of other big names in contention too, four handed play saw Couden facing Fitoussi, Eli Elezra and Mike Matusow, all 4 holding the chip lead at one point, while Daniel Negreanu finished 9th.
Event 54 - $3K NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 3 of 3, 1020 entrants Add Event 54 to the list of those needing extra time.
Four left, all guaranteed $163K but looking for the $522K and the bracelet for first.
Barry Hutter has one bracelet to his name (from 2015) and he's the leader overnight ahead of Diogo Veiga (Portugal) and Radoslav Stoyanov (Bulgaria). Day 2 leader Jonathan Abdellatif is hoping to do more than just make up the numbers.
Paul Fontan took 28th spot for the UK and a prize of $12399
Event 55 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 2 of 3, 1032 teams 28 teams of 2-4 players are still in, with Bon Koo and Bienvenido Caballero the chip leaders going into what should be the final day.
Not many well known players left, but Loni Harwood & Kelly Minkin are part of one of the teams with a decent stack, plus Manig Loeser and Cord Garcia are still in with their teams and the Alex Zeligman team has made it through albeit with only 16BB and other British names shown on the listings are Andrew Wilson & Jack Hardcastle. There may be others in theirs or other teams.
Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 2 of 3, 119 entries Both John Hennigan and Julien Martini are still in with a chance of a second 2018 bracelet, lying 2nd and 4th of just 13 qualifiers.
Calvin Anderson has the chip lead, but there's still plenty of accomplished names left in - Leah, Urbanovich, Kassela, Kessler, Volpe, Bojang and Forrest included.
This one looks like it is going to be a really good FT
Event 57 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 1 of 3, 696 entries After 10 hours of play, 104 ladies are still battling for the title, bracelet and $130K with Mesha James holding the biggest stack.
She manoevuered her way to the chip lead during the 40-minute long bubble, winning a massive pot with pocket eights.
Next in chips are Alexis Sterner and Tara Snow, with some reasonably well known names playing on include Kristy Annett, Melanie Wiesner and Gaelle Baumann.
We had the runner-up in this last year in the shape of Deborah Worley-Roberts, this time around it looks like there are two UK players through - Charlotte Godwin and Ishbel Leddy who allegedly hails from that well known place in Sussex, "Burger Hill"!
Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 1 of 3, 595 entries According to the report, the Day 1 chip lead is in the hands of 2015 November Niner and 2017 bracelet winner Thomas
According to the chip listings page, both Josip Simunic and Aleksandr Shevliakov both have way bigger stacks than Cannuli.
Who to believe?
Outside the very top echelons of the day 1 runners, Yiannis Liperis, Liv Boeree, Conor Beresford, Thomas Waters, Dean Lyall, Markus Kuhnen, Toby Lewis, Max Silver, Ben Morrison, Javier Fernandez, Damien Le Goff, Michael Kane and Robert Heidorn make up a decent GB quota, both in quantity and quality.
Some other names are Jean-Robert Bellande, Robert Mizrachi, Joseph Cheong, Greg Merson, Valentin Vornicu, 2012 PCA winner Kyle Julius and another November Niner, Russell Thomas.
To Start Today Event 59 - $1000 Super Turbo Bounty NLH, 1 Day Event, $300 bounties Event 60 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event Event 61 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH Championship, unlimited re-entry, 1 Day Event plus the final starting flight of Event 6, the $365 Giant NLH.
Event 54 - $3K NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 4 of 3, 1020 entrants It's the third bracelet for Portugal, but the first in Las Vegas as Diego Veiga got the better of his 3 Day 4 tablemates
Veiga won $555K in a tournament in Barcelona three months ago, and almost matched that here by taking the $522K first prize.
Barry Hutter finished second, Radoslav Stoyanov third and Jonathan Abdellatif fourth.
Event 55 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 3 of 3, 1032 teams Last year, a male/female tag team won one of the then two such bracelet events, this year with only this one on the schedule Guiseppe Panteleo and Nikita Luther each won their first bracelets and will split $175K.
Luther was also playing Event 54 at the same time as most of this one (she finished 17th) and only tagged in for Pantaleo in the breaks, but she was done with Event 54 by Day 3 and they split the play reasonably evenly.
The Japanese combination of Kazuki Ikeuchi, Hiroki Iwata and Sho Mori finished third while another international/mixed-gender team of Manig Loeser, Joelle Parenteau and Daniel Weinand finished third.
The highest finishing British players were Andrew Wilson and Ben Phillips who combined with American Eric Penner for 19th spot and $1668 each.
Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 3 of 3, 119 entries More time needed in Event 56, with the heads-up battle between Calvin Anderson and Frank Kassela undecided at the end of Day 3. Anderson has over a 3:1 lead but with stacks so shallow that even Anderson only has 15 big bets, one hand could easily equalise things.
Heads up has already been going on for 5 hours after the departure of Julien Martini in 3rd and Mike Leah in 4th while John Hennigan departed in 7th.
Event 57 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 2 of 3, 696 entries Ten players are still left, all American, in the battle to win the Ladies bracelet.
Jill Pike has twisted and turned her way to the top of the chip listings, moving upwards consistently during the last level of Day 2.
Jessica Dawley (two cashes already this series) is in second place and Weiyo Mo sits third.
Also left in include Dannielle Anderson and notable poker reporter Molly Mossey.
The British challenge ended pretty early on Day 3. First Charlotte Godwin went out (80th, $1646) and then Ishbel Leddy followed her out (62nd, $1969).
Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 2 of 3, 595 entries No confusion about the chip leader after Day 2 after Andrew Graham's five-bet shove with Kings got the better of Anthony Spinella's Jacks.
He has 1.4m chips with only 3 other players above a million - Eric Blair, Dave Stefanski & Justin Adams.
27 are left, with former ME winner Greg Merson, former November Niner Sylvain Loosli, Jean-Robert Ballande and Martin Finger amongst them.
The British challenge rather petered out with Dean Lyall the only one left, with Sergio Aspina Aido also showing as fron the UK but is one of those Spanish players resident here that I seem to being up every night. His biggest win is over $1.3m in an event in the Phillipines which brings us nicely on to event 59.
Event 59 - $1000 Super Turbo Bounty NLH, 1 Day Event, $300 bounties, 2065 entries
This one was a first - the first bracelet ever for a player from the Phillipines. Mike Takayama was the king of the super-turbo bounty, according to the WSOP he seemed to say "All in" about as much as he said "Fold".
He won the bracelet and over $198K when he beat Lorenc Puka heads-up with Matthew Smith in third.
Steve Jelinek added to the top-4 Brit finishes this summer by taking 4th for $65K. Darren Taylor, Gil Thierry, Richard Kellett, Florian Duta, Stefan Fabian, Adam Bromley (yay!), Chun Yan, Dan Laming, Sunny Chattha, Alejandro Torres and Ben Farrell also cashed. (Others may have also won some bounties but they're not shown on the WSOP reports tab)
Shaun Deeb scored a small cash to add more points to his lead in the Player of the Year standings.
Event 60 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 218 entries so far Onto the next $10K championship event, with 125 of the 218 entries surviving the ups and downs of PLO8 Day 1.
Nathan Gamble has had deep runs in both Event 35 and Event 53 and he's at it again holding the biggest stack in Event 60.
Shaun Deeb tried this one too, but went out in a huge hand also involving Mike Leah & Talal Shakerchi, both Deeb & Leah flopping straights while Shakerchi had a set, which became a house on the river to scoop.
Talal has held on to most of those chips and sits 56th overnight which is also 3rd Brit behind Richard Gryko & Thomas Cazayous with Barny Boatman and Stu Rutter also still in.
Event 61 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH Championship, unlimited re-entry, 1 Day Event This online event went to Ryan Tosoc ($238K) ahed of Anthony Maio ($175K) and Aussie Joel Feldman ($124K)
Shaun Deeb was also playing this while he was involved in the live events, he busted in 95th spot for $2640
Not much more to say about this one, to be honest.
Event 6, the $365 Giant NLH, final Day 1, total of 8920 entries The final day 1 of the Giant has now concluded with a confirmed 535 players from across the five flights returning for Day 2.
Alexander Lokhov, Daniel Dealmeida and David Bellacose took the top three stacks forward from Day 1E, no-one getting close to the stack of Day 1B chip leader Jon Turner.
Five British players joined the part from today's play - Neil Edwards, Daniel Toffel, Frank Bastow, Hugh Cairnie and Andrew Abernathy.
No record of Shaun Deeb playing this one but apparently he was railing the action in this at 4am!
To Start Today Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 3 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days, $888,888 guarantee Event 63 - $3200 WSOP.com Online NLH High Roller, 1 Day Event
Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 4 of 3, 119 entries I said yesterday that "More time needed in Event 56", well it wasn't much more time as Calvin Anderson finished the job in just 5 hands.
The big hand was the fourth hand which went all the way to 7th street which left Kassela with just 2 ante chips, which disappeared in the very next hand.
It's the second bracelet for Anderson, he previously won a Stud High/Low bracelet in 2014.
Event 57 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 2 of 3, 696 entries It was the fourth time Jessica Dawley cashed in the ladies event, but the very first time she has taken it all the way to the bracelet.
She won over $130K after a very short heads-up match with Jill Pike, the latter shoving her last 5BB with K4 and Dawley getting there after flopping a five to go with her holding of 85suited
Third place on the All-American final table went to Lisa Fong.
Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 3 of 4, 595 entries Action paused after the FT was reached in Event 58, with the extrovert that is Jean-Robert Bellande having a large chip lead over his 5 opponents.
Second place is a British player, Dean Lyall while Kacper Pyzara from Poland is third.
Event 60 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 2 of 3, 218 entries so far Of the 125 players who entered Day 2, only two dozen finished the day with chips.
Californian Michael McKenna holds the chip lead being the only player with over a million chips. Two players who come very early when names are listed in alphabetical order, Ali Abduljabbar and Michael Abecassis are his nearest challengers.
Some well known names among the 24 include Brandon Shack-Harris, Chris Ferguson, David "ODB" Baker, Phil Galfond and Eli Elezra
Unfortunately no Brits remain, the only cash coming from Thomas Cazayous in 30th for $15000.
Event 6, the $365 Giant NLH, Day 2 of 3, total of 8920 entries The survivors from all 5 Day 1 flights came together and battled down to a FT of 9.
The biggest stack belongs to Brazilian Renato Kaneoya with Luis Vasquez second and Alexander Lakhov third.
There's a quarter of a million dollars for the winner and some pretty large pay jumps for a $365 event so this FT could get very cagey.
We were so close to having British representation on the FT - Jordan Bamford battled long and hard but went out in 10th spot after losing two successive hands to Vasquez.
Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 3 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days, $888,888 guarantee Two flights of the Crazy Eights saw 99 and 90 players respectively make it through.
GB players through from 1A - Peter Linton, Alexander Elias, Stavros Kalfas, Paul vas Nunes, Arkadi Kilman and Louis Salter, and from 1B just Peter Akery
Event 63 - $3200 WSOP.com Online NLH High Roller, 1 Day Event 356 different players plus 124 rebuys saw a prize pool of almost a million and a half dollars, with Chance Kornuth taking the bracelet and $341K share of that pool.
David Goodman and Timothy Nuter finished in the minor places, with the top 7 all showing as American.
To Start Today Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event
plus the final starting flight of the $365 PLO Giant.
Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 4 of 4, 595 entries It's a first bracelet (after several near misses including 2 second places) for Jean-Robert Bellande.
JRB finished off Scot Dean Lyall (yet another very deep run for a British player) by winning 11 out of the last 12 hands. First prize was $616K, while Lyall more than doubled his career earnings with his $380K payday.
Well known online player Andrew Graham finished third.
Event 60 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 218 entries so far Taking a break from organising a brand new poker site, Phil Galfond earned his third bracelet in a game that isn't among his regular high stakes online repertoire.
He only took the lead in the event partway through heads-up play with Day 2 leader Michael McKenna who had finished fourth in the $1500 Razz just last week.
On an all-American final table, Ali Abduljabber was the third placed finisher.
Event 6, the $365 Giant NLH, Day 2 of 3, total of 8920 entries One of the shorter stacks at the FT, Jeremy Perrin's first ambition was to ladder up a few spots. Once had had sixth he aimed for third, and only when he made the Top 3 did he think about winning it.
He beat Puerto Rican Luis Vazquez heads up, with Bulgarian Svetlozar Nestorov third, the top 3 picking up $250K, $155K and $118 respectively.
Alexander Lekhov's fifth place was his second FT of the series.
Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 3 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days, $888,888 guarantee first prize, 2495 entries The final 2 starting flights of the Crazy Eights were concluded with a familiar name at the top of the 1C listings - Chris Moorman. Several other Brits through - Mark McGovern, Oliver Price, Ian Simpson (who I believe was a guest in the days of Channel 861) and Conor Beresford,
Some other well known names progressing too including Sorel Mizzi, Eric Baldwin, Marvin Rettenmaier & Ylon Schwartz
Flight 1D contributes 138 players to the Day 2 total with Andrew Wilson fresh from his cash in the Tag Team event as top Brit with Andrew Hills and Katie Swift both through too.
Matt Salsberg is the leader from this flight with former ME winner Ryan Riess (and his almost namesake Ryan Weiss) bagging chips and moving on to Day 2.
Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 133 entries so far A little under half of the starting field made Day 2, with the reigning champion of this event, Chris Vitch, topping the table. He is also looking to become one of a very few players to win bracelets in three straight years.
The good news from a UK perspective is that Stuart Rutter is continiung to have a fine series. 6 cashes including 3 at $10K entry levels could be added to as he lies third overnight, with Daham Wang in second.
Sonny Osman also sits inside the Top 10 with Adam Owen, Benny Glaser and Jason Gray are also through.
Event 11 - $365 PLO Giant, Final starting flight You wouldn't exepct to see Michael Mizrachi playing too many events at this entry level, but he's had a go at this one and ended the day as the chip leader of this flight.
He is in fact the overall leader across the 5 flights, his 1.845m chips outranking all the other qualifiers. He leapt to the top of the listings midway through the day, had a little bit of a blip, but then hit quads on the penultimate hand to regain the advantage.
There isn't a full list of the qualifiers online yet, if there is anyone particularly noteworthy I'll update later.
To Start Today It's the big one. Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s
It doesn't look like we are getting any TV coverage of the early action in the UK this year. Last year we got at least 2 hours per day from the beginning (remember the clash between Vanessa Selbst and Gaelle Baumann?) but I can't see anything on the Programme Guide for today.
What a day for my laptop to have problems! I've had to dig the old one out of the loft, which itself has broken wi-fi and a dodgy keyboard to put some sort of report together.
Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 2 of 3 , $888,888 guarantee first prize, 8598 entries Day 2 saw the field reduced to 29 players with a number of familiar names amongst them.
Galen Hall is the chip leader, with the best Brit, Paul Vas Nunes close behind and Hunter Frey third.
Chris Moorman is also still there for the UK, and we also have 7-times bracelet winner Men Nguyen with a very playable stack.
Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 133 entries so far Chris Vitch's chances of repeating his win of 12 months ago in the equivalent event, and become a rare 3-in-3 successive years are increasing day-by-day, as he held on to his Day 1 chip lead.
Other bracelet holders still in include Brice Yockey, Scott Bohlman and Jesse Martin, but there's no British challenge as all 4 contenders fell by the wayside on Day 2, all before the cash bubble burst.
Event 11 - $365 PLO Giant, Day 2 of 3, 3250 entries The Grinder, Michael Mizrachi is still in with a great chance of adding this bracelet to the won at the other end of the entry-fee levels, the $50K Poker Players Championship.
He doesn't have the chip lead (that belongs to the almost unpronouceable Srinivas Balasubramanian ahead of Robert Ciccheli and Pete Arroyos but he does comeback with over 30BB on the 9-man FT. (although that will reduce soon after the start of play as there is only two minutes left in the level)
Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1 It may not be the biggest buy-in, or the biggest field size, but it's still the Numero Uno event.
Day 1A is traditionally the smallest of the starting days, but the WSOP will be very happy with the 915 players who stumped up the $10K.
They included a number of former winners, 4 made it through (Joe Hachem, Scotty Nguyen, Eric Seidel & Joe McKeehen) while 3 didn't (the last 2 winners Scott Blumstein and Qui Nguyen, and Jerry Yang)
Timothy Lau navigated the day with the biggest stack ahead of another in the seemingly endless line of Nguyens, this time Truyen Nguyen second and Chris Fraser third.
With over 650 players making it though, there a lot of Brits amongst them so I'm only really touching the surface by mentioning Gavin Cochrane, Jason McConnon, Colin Guthrie, Charles Clark, Chuc Khuu, Scott Margereson, David Douglas and Jonathan Prested all in the top half, plus two names known here David Maudlin and James Rann a little further down.
These players will come back on Thursday for their Day 2.
To Start Today None
I'll try to fix my main machine before tomorrow...
Main Event is looking big in 2018. Flight A was up 16% y-o-y and Flight B has already passed last year's entry number with 3 1/2 hours of registration left. Come get in this event. Last flight tomorrow at 11am.
Work/personal life schedules mean an early (and incomplete) update today
Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 3 of 3, $888,888 guarantee first prize, 8598 entries Play has been halted wit 3 players unable to be split on what was supposed to be the final day.
Just as at the end of Day 2, Galen Hall has the chip lead, with Niels Herrogodts and Eduards Kudrjavcevs the othe two still in the running.
Chris Moorman left the scene early on Day 3 after a Brit-on-Brit clash with Paul vas Nunes (23rd, $27661). PvN took exactly the same payout not much later when he bust in 17th
Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 141 entries so far Play is ongoing with an Dan Matsuzuki leading Scott Bohlman by about a 5:2 chip lead.
Chris Vitch's attempt at a repeat ended in 4th spot. He takes $108K, 3rd place Ken Aldridge $154K with the top two taking $364K and $225K respectively
Event 11 - $365 PLO Giant, Day 3 of 3, 3250 entries No need for extra time here as this one is done and dusted.
Canadian Tim Andrew didn't get off to the best of starts - he overslept and missed the first 30 minutes of the FT. It all ended in rather a better fashion with him winning the bracelet and $116K.
Day 2 chip leader Srinivas Balasubramanian was the first to exit, losing three or four big hands in a row.
Michael Mizrachi's attempt for another bracelet foundered in 5th, leaving Andrew to finish off fellow Canadian Robert Ciccheli in third and Pete Arroyos heads-up.
Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1 For the second day in a row, a sizeable increase on last year's numbers - 2378 entries and just under 1900 qualifiers.
The biggest stack was held by France's Smain Mamouni ahead of Samuel Bernabeu.
One player went out on the very first hand, it all went in pre-flop with Aces against Kings and there was a King on the flop to bust the aces.
I haven't got much time to look thorough the list of survivors, so just to pick out a few of the top British players - Tom Hall, Philip Ward, Richard Howe, Paul Fontan, Aeragan Arunan, Rhys Jones, Mark Hammond, Fraser MacIntyre, Richard Gryko, Antony Hallam, Charlotte Godwin, Ben Morrison and former bracelet winner Matthew Ashton.
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Robert Nehorayan came from second at the end of Day 2 to finish alone on the table at the end of Day 3.
With the $173K first prize, Nehorayan almost tripled his biggest previous biggest cash achieved 11 years ago when he finished $146th in the Main Event.
His final victim, Kevin Song, won his only bracelet 21 years ago (when Tikay was a lad) and David Gee ended third.
The final table were all American except for Oleg Chebotarev, the Russian finishing 7th.
Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 230 entries
Event 42 has reached a final table, and another WSOP veteran is well in contention, 1998 ME winner Scotty Nguyen. Scotty baby leads defending event champion James Calderaro and Shaun Deeb.
Last UK representative, Adam Owen, finished 30th for $41K.
Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1248 entrants
Two days down, one (at least) to go with 34 players coming back to fight for the bracelet.
Seth Davies is the chip leader, closely followed by Jeff Hakim and Javier Fernandez, with a distinct gap to the rest of the field.
James Rann is still running well, just outside the top 10, while there are a number of former bracelet holders still in - last year's Player of the Year Chris Ferguson, David Peters, Ryan Laplante & Andreas Klatt.
Event 44 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, 109 entries
Nine Day 2 entries boosted the field to 109, with 13 of them making Day 3.
Michael Noori was at or near the top of the chip standings most of the day, and ended it with a sizeable lead over Christopher Kruk and Randy Ohel.
Farzad Bonyadi is still alive trying to match his mother's bracelet a few days ago, and another former bracelet holder Calvin Anderson (one of the Day 2 entrants) is still there too, albeit with a shortish stack.
No Brits, Luke Schwartz's position two off the money being the best the UK could get.
Event 45 - $1K Big-Blind Ante NLH (30 minute levels), Day 1 of 2, 1712 entrants
Fast and furious action meant just 41 players will come back for the second and final day of Event 45.
Steven Wolansky bagged the biggest stack with 620K chips ahead of DJ Mackinnon's 532K and Michael Wang's 335K.
Elliott Peterman is the highest ranked Brit in 10th, while Matthew Hunt, Conor Beresford and Andrew Tang are clustered around the high 20s.
Others include two men who've had deep runs in the ME - Joseph Cheong (3rd, 2010) and Martin Staszko (3rd 2011) and three well known female players - Kathy Liebert, Kelly Minkin and Esther Taylor.
Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 1 of 3, 402 entries
152 of the 402 navigated a day of potenial split pots, aiming for Tikay's favourites, "Scoopio".
Sergio Ramirez collected the largest Day 1 stack, with only Eric Rodawig anywhere near him in terms of chips.
Paul Jackson has a decent stack and lies in 32nd, and the only other Brits through are the West Country duo of Ben Dobson and Robert Price
2005 Main Event winner Joe Hachem has been relatively quiet in recent years, but has made it through Day 1, as has Daniel Negreanu, Kate Hoang, Julien Martini, Robert Mizrachi, Marcel Luske, Perry Friedman, and Barry Greenstein.
Event 47 - $565 WSOP.com Online NLH, Unlimited Re-entry, 1 Day Event
The online PLO event went to Matthew Mendez who collected $135K for over 15 hours work.
The only non-American on the FT, Marton Czuczor was second and Anthony Zinno third.
Scott Clements was multi-tasking this event plus the mixed high/low event above, he busted that short of the money but finished 18th in the online event for $4451 to at least make some profit on the day.
Flight D of Event 6, The Giant, 1167 entrants
The fourth attempt of qualifying for the later stages of the Giant saw 63 players book their ticket.
Duy Ho is a nice short name with a nice big stack, and Ian Pelz isn't that bad either. Alice Sicconi holds third place.
Four British players qualified, Andrew Wilson, Katie Swift, Michael Bucher and the seemingly omnipresent Adam Owen.
One semi-notable player through is the 12th-placed finisher from last year's ME, Richard Dubini from Argentina.
The Day 2 for this event is next Saturday, 30th June.
To Start Today
Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s)
Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, 3 Day Event
24 left, James Rann doing very nicely, in about 8th spot. He's guaranteed himself at least $15K, next ladder at 18th when it goes to $18600.
Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 230 entries
12 months ago, Ben Yu beat Shaun Deeb heads-up to win the $10K 2-7 Triple Draw event. The two double bracelet holders clashed again here with the High Roller PLO bracelet at stake, and this time Deeb got his revenge.
The $1.4 million prize is by far Deeb's highest ever cash, beating his previous highest of $318K (although he did once win a seat to the $1million One Drop in a satellite).
Former ME winner Scotty Nguyen was third, James Calderado 4th and Jason Koon 5th.
By running this deep, neither Yu nor Deeb could compete for that $10K 2-7 Triple Draw this year, more of that anon.
Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1248 entrants
As suspected, this one wasn't done and dusted within the regulation 3 days and 6 players will come back to fight for the win on Day 4.
Chris Ferguson holds a large chip lead overnight, almost double the stack of Israel's Timur Margolin.
The rest of the FT isn't too shabby either - Ismael Bojang, Michael Marder, Dylan Linde & Ryan Laplante.
As briefly mentioned last night, James Rann was unlucky to bust in 23rd place for a little over $15K.
Event 44 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 3 of 3, 109 entries
He'd never played a 2-7 Triple Draw tournament before, but it must surely be Nicholas Seiken's favourite game now!
Having only previously played the format in mixed-games, he got the better of another mixed-games name, Randy Ohel heads-up, with Kristijonas Andrulis third.
Behind them, Farzad Bonyadi's quest to follow his mother in winning a 2018 bracelet finished in 4th, Matt Glantz was 5th and top Brit, Jason Gray (who I missed in yesterday's roundup), was 6th ($46K)
Event 45 - $1K Big-Blind Ante NLH (30 minute levels), Day 2 of 2, 1712 entrants
Just seven hours of Day 2 action needed, and the denoument came in a hurry as Spaniard Martin Prats Garcia knocked out all the last 5 opponents in just 14 hands.
First he came from behind to bust Gregory Worner, then his A-10 dominated Mark Schluter's 10-8 which never improved. Shortly afterwards he picked up A-K and was able to call Michael Wang's shove with pocket threes, a King on the flop sealing the elimination, and heads-up with Matthew Hunt lasted just 3 hands.
Hunt raised and took the first hand pre-flop, Garcia shoved with 9-5 on the second hand with Hunt calling with A-2, neither improved and Hunt doubled up and then on the third hand, it got all the way to the river before the chips went in, the board being 5-4-7-9-8 with 3 diamonds. Hunt had 10-6 for a 7-card straight, but Garcia had the diamonds and it was all over.
That's at least the third runner-up finish for British players this Series, to go along with 2 bracelets and several other very deep runs.
Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 2 of 3, 402 entries
Fifteen players survive after Day 2 of this one, all guaranteed at least $7K for their troubles.
Ian Shaw doesn't have a ton of recorded cashes, with just 2 WSOP scores and 4 in total according to Hendon Mob, but the Mexico resident is top dog after Day 2
Tyler Groth sits in second after eliminating Daniel Negreanu and Colombia's Daniel Ospina makes a 1-3 for Latin America.
Hani Awad won this very event two years ago and is in with a chance of a repeat, and other bracelet holders Cyndy Violette, Brendan Taylor and Eric Rodawig are also in the hunt for more jewellery.
Two GB names took some cash home, Paul Jackson was the penultimate Day 2 elimnation for 17th place and nearly $6K while Robert Price went out in 34th for $4577.
Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s)
The first flight of the Monster Stack is in the books with 723 players through to Sunday's Day 2.
The 1A chip leader is midlander Kfir Ivgi who has been picking up cashes across the UK for a few years but only collected his first US cash a few days ago in a Rio Daily Deepstack.
With over 700 players through, I'm not going to list all the GB qualifiers, but they do include Daniel Corbett, Ben Farrell, Samuel Welbourne, Michael Kane, John Eames, Simon Deadman, Jerome Bradpiece & Paul Newey
Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 1 of 3, 439 entries so far
Already up on last year's field size, with of course late reg still open with just under half the field bagging chips at the end of the night.
Ryan Hughes holds the lead ahead of Majid Yahyaei and Veselin Karakitukov.
Ben Lamb made the FT of last year's Main Event (and won a $10K PLO tournament at the Aria a few days ago) and he's carried that form through here lying 4th overnight.
Phillip Mighall and Stephen Chidwick have both bagged top-20 stacks, Richard Gryko is inside the Top 50 while Alex Lindop is nursing a smaller stack.
A few names I've picked out - brothers Michael (11th) and Robert (38th) Mizrachi, Mike Leah, Brandon Shack-Harris, Sylvain Loosli and Eoghan O'Dea plus a guy with a long name if not a big name, Veerachai Vongxaiburana
To Start Today
Event 50 - $1500 Razz, 3 Day Event
plus another starting flight of the $565 Giant PLO.
Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1248 entrants
Depending on which WSOP update you believe, Timur Margolin has become either the eighth or ninth player from Israel to win a WSOP gold bracelet.
On the extra Day 4, Ryan Laplante and Dylan Linde busted early before a action-packed session of 4-handed play took place. A number of double-ups occured with all four players being the ones at risk at one point or another.
Margolin eventually got the better of Chris Ferguson, and then Michael Marder, leaving him heads up with Ismael Bojang. More swings and swongs (copyright T Kendall 2005) before Israel got the better of Germany with Margolin taking $507K and Bojang $313K.
Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 2 of 3, 402 entries
Coming back from an 8:1 chip lead heads-up, David Broookshire added a WSOP bracelet to a circuit ring beating Brandon Taylor heads-up
The key hand was a Stud hand where Brookshire already had the low end tied up and filled a flush on 7th street to scoopio (copyright T Kendall 2006). After that he moved relentless onwards and less than an hour later the win (and $214K) was his.
The Latin-American duo of Daniel Ospina and Ian Shaw finished third and fourth.
Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 1B of 5, total of 6260 entries
What's that coming over the hill? It's another starting flight of the Monster Stack.
Jeffrey Trudeau isn't a member of Canada's politicial first family but a poker player from Florida and he bagged the biggest 1B stack. Shalev Halfa completed a good day for Israel and is lying second and Sami Ruston third.
Some GB qualifiers among the 1362 through - Ben Jackson, Marc Foggin, Dan Laming, Damien Le Goff, Stephen Chidwick, Steven Watts, Stuart Rutter, Steven Warburton and James Rann. Oh and someone by the name of Natterley (copyright T Kendall 2007) Bromley
With just a week to the Main Event, 2015 ME winner Joe McKeehan is looking to add to his 2 FTs already this summer and he's got lots of chips here.
Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 476 entries so far
Down to 37 and despite and up-and-down day, Day 1 chip leader Ryan Hughes is back in the lead just in time to bag up at the end of Day 2.
Rep Porter lies in second and William Kopp third. Others still in include Scotty Nguyen, Ryan Laplante, Anton Morgenstern and Mike Leah.
Richard Gryko appears to be the only British name through, despite losing a huge hand to Hughes.
One hand that had people taking notice was a confrontation between Brandon Shack-Harris and Joe Hachem, the Aussie who flopped Aces full, yet was behind to Shack-Harris' flopped quads. As live poker isn't fixed, Hachem didn't improved and was busto (copyright T Kendall 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014....)
Event 50 - $1500 Razz, Day 1 of 3, 389 entrants
Shalom. That's not a reference to yet another successful run by an Israeli player, but the surname of Victor Shalam who is top razzer after Day 1.
He leads Richard Sklar, John Beringer and 115 other hopefuls into Day 2.
Adam Owen hasn't had a mention today (until now), he's 6th overnight and Benny Glaser 11th but they appear to be the only 2 Brits.
Julien Martini won Event 4 (seems like ages ago now) but he's involved with this one as are Shaun Deeb and John Hennigan (currently 1st and 2nd in the Player of the Year race), two former razz winners (Max Pescatori and Ted Forrest) and multiple-bracelet winners such as Phil Hellmuth, Brandon Cantu, Chris Bjorin and Barry Greenstein.
Event 11 $365 Giant PLO.
The penultimate flight saw 33 more names guarantee progression to day 2. Heroico Aguiluz was the hero of the day and was the chip leader with Aussie Daniel Laidlaw and Argentinian Gonzalo Mercade showing better form than their countries World Cup teams in second and third.
Not many recognisable names among the 33, but Matt Stout and Men Nguyen do appear, and so does Linda Iwaniak who has added another cash to her FT in the super seniors event last week.
To Start Today
Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 3 Day Event, $500 Bounties
Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, 3 Day Event
A little over 250 players will return form Day 3 of the Monster Stack, with a double-bracelet winner, Steve Billirakis, in pole position.
He has a lead over Tommy Nguyen and James Stewart, with in 4th place and marked as GB, Raul Manzanares Lozano, who may be one of a group of Spanish players living in the UK.
Daniel Corbett, Robert Heidorn, Jose Auslander, Steven Watts, Richard Pearson, Dean Hutchison are also still involved, all of whom have $5140 locked up and still a dream of first prize of just over a million dollars.
Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 476 entries so far
Another event where the first prize is just over a million dollars but this one is a) a lot closer to the end and b) a much bigger buy-in, so the 6 players who've made sure the tournament goes into a unscheduled 4th day have already secured themselves $157K.
Remember yesterday I said Day 1 chip leader Ryan Hughes was also Day 2 chip leader? Well he's slipping. He's only second at the end of Day 3 behind Brandon Shack-Harris and ahead of Loren Klein.
Last Brit standing was Richard Gryko who went out in 16th spot with a slip for $34K to take to the payout desk.
Event 50 - $1500 Razz, Day 2 of 3, 389 entrants
Woth players sich as Adam Owen, Dzmitry Urbanovich and Kevin Iacofano among the final 9, it may surprise some to know there's not a single bracelet holder among them.
Iacofano is chip leader, with Michael McKenna and Thomas Taylor second and third.
Shalom. That's not a reference to yet another successful run by an Israeli player, but the surname of Victor Shalam who is top razzer after Day 1.
He leads Richard Sklar, John Beringer and 115 other hopefuls into Day 2.
Benny Glaser finished 44th for $2471 as the only other GB player to cash.
Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 1 of 3, $500 Bounties, 1982 entries
With a slight increase in entries above 12 months ago, tbe bubble burst on the last hand of Day 1 so all 298 remaining players have guaranteed themselves $1415 plus any bounties they may accrue.
We have a British name at the top of the chip listings - Alex Whitenstall from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His 198K chips is 20K more than nearest challenger Quyen Hoang and third placed Samuel Miller.
Another British player, Matthew Hunt from Salisbury is also inside the Top 20, while lower down are Aaron Woodcock, Gaurav Assomull, Steven MOrris, Adam Daniel, Oliver Biles, Michael Richardson, Chun Yam, Marc Foggin (another one for Newcastle), Raul Martinez Requena (see xx reference above), Conor Beresford and Daniel Tang.
Not a lot of hugely recognisable names, Marvin Rettenmaier the easiest one to pick out.
Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, Day 1 of 3, 101 entries so far
Hmmm, limit Hold'em for $10K? I'll pass thanks but 100 of the WSOP's finest are up for it and surprisingly only 43 of them stick around for Day 2 (maybe to be joined by a few more late entrants).
Michael Moore leads with a decent advantage over Joao Vieira and Nick Schulman.
Benny Glaser can turn his hand to most variants and he's made Day 2, albeit with one of the smaller stacks.
Also still in, Anthony Zinno, Robert Mizrachi, Andre Akkari, Ismael Bojang and Jeff Lisandro, while the smallest Day 1 stack of all belongs to Juha Helppi.
To Start Today
Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, 3 Day Event including our very own Tikay.
Event 54 - $3K NLH, 3 Day Event
Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 3 of 4, total of 6260 entries
257 players started day 3, with one table Daniel Wojcik of the USA sitting right next to Daniel Wojcik of Canada. What's the chances of that? Perhaps live poker is rigged in different ways to what people thought!
Anyway, 29 of those 257 move on, headed by Vitor Rangel, James Carroll and Harald Sammer. Steve Billirakis who was the youngest ever Las Vegas WSOP winner and Day 2 chip leader is still involved, as is Raul Manzanares Lozano and Daniel Corbett, showing as from Manchester and Blackburn respectively.
Down at the bottom of the listings is David Cabrera Polop, who has the proverbial "chip and a chair", his 20K chips forming just one ante. He'll need to get super lucky to even ladder up (next pay jump at 27)
If you're fans of players with no vowels in their name, Mstr Lynch is your man. He'll come back with about 20BB and look to spin it up early.
Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 3 of 3, 476 entries so far
2016, winner of Event 45 (Mixed NLH/PLO), 2017 winner of event 41 (PLO), 2018 winner of Event 49 (PLO), that's a very nice resume for Loren Klein as he earned his third bracelet in three years.
This one was was a lot bigger than his first two wins (both $1500 events) and he is now the proud possessor of not just a third bracelet but over a million dollars.
Looking back to 2016, Klein also had a deep run in this very event, falling second to Brandon Shack-Harris. Shack-Harris bowed out in 3rd this time, with Rep Porter being the runner-up
Event 50 - $1500 Razz, Day 2 of 3, 389 entrants
Good luck if you understood yesterday's update of this one, it appears to have had more typos than the average Grauniad article of the 1980s.
Hopefully it will be better today, reporting the win of self-proclaimed Razz specialist Jay Kwon (as far as I know, no relation to early 2000s rapper J-Kwon).
British mixed-games player Adam Owen went out in 3rd for $52K and Polish player Dzmitry Urbanovich was second for $77K. Kwon by contrast earned almost as much as those two together ($125K)
Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 2 of 3, $500 Bounties, 1982 entries
The WSOP were having a bit of a 'mare about the nationalities on the chip listings, showing the first three players as from Eritrea, the US and Iran.
The US, fair enough with Ryan Leng from Illinois in second place. The leader is Ranno Sootla, who is actually from Estonia, and in third place is Jamie O'Conner, showing as from "West Yorkshire, Iran" but is actually Irish.
Lying in 4th is 2013 ME runner-up, Jay Farber while German "Mad" Marvin Rettenmaier has one of the smaller stacks.
No Brits, Alex Whitenstall busted in 41st for $5722.
Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, Day 2 of 3, 114 entries
56 players started Day 2, only 14 were still standing at the end of the day.
Dan Zack is the overnight chip leader, and has a huge stack (more than double his nearest challenger).
That nearest challenger is Nick Schulman, with Anthony Zinno very close behind.
Benny Glaser is the last non-US representative, in the lower middle order.
Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 1 of 3, 935 entries
So, first things first, I have to be the bearer of bad news as our very own Tikay has not extended his decent run in WSOP events, losing his stack at some point during Day 1.
Stu Rutter is through though after a very eventful day where he earned a one-level suspension (if that's right that's the biggest penalty I've heard of in years) for "constant mocking" of Phil Hellmuth, and then lost a late big pot to Bryce Yockey, tanking after Yockey shoved until the clock was called, and even then did not act and his hand was declared dead. After that, he will come back with a pretty short stack and will a) need to be on his best behaviour and b) get lucky to double up a few times. Mocking Hellmuth may be as good for the soul as taking the mickey out of present-day Diego Maradona, but I guess there's a time and a place.
That hand put Yockey near the top of the listings, along with the likes of Brad Albrinck, Dustin Pattinson and Eli Elezra.
Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, Bruno Fitoussi, the aforementioned Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson, John Racener, Joseph Cheong, Chris Bjorin and Brandon Cantu make up a quite high quotient of big names for a $1500 event.
Other Brits through include Thomas Cazayous, Warren Colman, Paul Jackson and Peter Charalambous
Event 54 - $3K NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 1 of 3, 1020 entrants
A nice field size of over 1000 players, meant that 153 will get paid but with almost 100 more than that qualifying for Day 2 the bubble is still intact.
Braclet winners who will be present and correct for Day 2 include Kathy Liebert, Frank Kassela and Scotty Nguyen, but the biggest stack belongs to Fahredin Mustafov. The Bulgarian has only a small lead over Jordan Young with Canada's Rayan Chamas a bit further behind.
Max Silver lies in 20th spot, Oscar Serradell 36th, and former November Niner James Akenhead is 46th. Adrien Delmas, Paul vas Nunes, Ben Farrell, Steven Warburton, Guillermo Sanchez, Paul Fontan, Soner Osman, Mark Teltscher and Robert Heidorn make up the rest of the GB challenge, but I refer the honourable readers to a previous update, where I posit that some of the GB players are actually Spanish but resident in the UK.
To Start Today
Event 55 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), 3 Day Event
Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, 3 Day Event
Hopefully there will be a youtube (or similar) clip available for the Rutter/Hellmuth "banter" so we can judge for ourselves both the quality of it and whether it was level penalty worthy.
Must be a glitch though, surely Tikay is not busto in day 1 of a tourney? Must have been a cooler to get him to play a hand that early.
PS. I think you missed an opportunity for some punnage with mr Foggin from Newcastle.
The newest WSOP millionaire is 28-year old Tommy Nguyen with the Canadian coming out on top after a FT that was a big slick shove fest, nine times there was an all-in hand with AK and it being successfull seven of those nine times.
James Carroll was second and Francis Rusnak third, with Daniel Corbett best Brit in 5th after holding the chip lead on and off through the day.
Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 3 of 3, $500 Bounties, 1982 entries
The Bounty Hunder has gone into a fourth day with the regulation 3 days unable to separate the final four players.
Ryan Leng had a rollercoaster of a day, but ended it on an upswing to hold the chip lead, reversing the top two places from Day 2 with Ranno Sootla. Christian Nolte is third and 2013 ME runner-up Jay Farber brings up the rear.
Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, Day 3 of 3, 114 entries
Hands up who thought Scott Siever had more than one bracelet already? I see quite a lot of hands. Mine would have been up too but it took today for Siever to add his second WSOP gold bracelet.
He took down Event 52 for $296K, a drop in the ocean in his massive tournament and cash winnings, but the bracelet meant a lot to him after not planning to play much WSOP action at the start of the summer. A second place in Event 8 restored the hunger and now three weeks later he has his win. He played the FT wearing a T-shirt bearing the face of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her win was more unlikely than his.
Benny Glaser was the only UK player to cash, finishing 10th for $20K.
Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 935 entries
Twenty players remain, and the defending champion in this event, Nathan Gamble, is the chip leader.
Plenty of well known names line up behind Gamble, including Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, Quinn Do, Eli Elezra (all on the same Day 3 table), Bryce Yockey and Bruno Fitoussi.
What we don't have is any UK names - Warren Colman did best for 52nd spot ($4125) while Paul Jackson earned about a grand less for 64th.
Event 54 - $3K NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 2 of 3, 1020 entrants
31 players make Day 3 and the chip listings have an unbalanced look about them.
Jonathan Abdellatif has over 2.7m chips, almost three times as many as his nearest challenger Barry Hutter, and 3.5 times that of third placed Mariano Cruz.
Paul Fontan is the only UK representative and he has the second smallest stack, 125K.
Event 55 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 1 of 3, 1032 teams
A little hard to follow who's who in this, all I can say for sure is that 242 teams bagged up for the night, and that 155 will get paid.
The leading team is made up of Juan Ramirez, Isai Coello & Dustin Pattinson.
The WSOP are only showing the team captains on the chip listings but they do include Alex Zeligman from Surrey in 2nd place. He's playing with Jonathan Roux & Daniel Price.
Hopefully a clearer update will be available tomorrow.
Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 1 of 3, 112 entries so far
John Hennigan has already won one $10K bracelet (Event 27, the HORSE) and he's on the lookout for a second, a late run giving him the chip lead on Day 1 of the Razz.
He's got Ted Forrest and Per Hildebrand on his heels and another 2018 bracelet winner Julien Martini close behind.
There's just one "GB" shown in the Day 1 chip report, attached to the name of Jason Gray in 13th spot, out of the 42 qualifiers
To Start Today
Event 57 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, 3 Day Event
Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, 3 Day Event
A fourth day of action was needed to decide the bounty hunter, and it was decided in favour of the start-of-day leader Ryan Leng.
The man he's been basically neck and neck with for two days, Ranno Sootla from Estonia was his defeated heads-up and Jay Farber went out in third.
Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 3 of 3, 935 entries
Talk about cutting it fine. There were just two minutes and 30 seconds left in Day 3 play when Joey Couden scooped Bruno Fitoussi to win his first bracelet and $244K. He has previously made a couple of FTs but never really challenged for the bracelet, but that's all changed now.
There were plenty of other big names in contention too, four handed play saw Couden facing Fitoussi, Eli Elezra and Mike Matusow, all 4 holding the chip lead at one point, while Daniel Negreanu finished 9th.
Event 54 - $3K NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 3 of 3, 1020 entrants
Add Event 54 to the list of those needing extra time.
Four left, all guaranteed $163K but looking for the $522K and the bracelet for first.
Barry Hutter has one bracelet to his name (from 2015) and he's the leader overnight ahead of Diogo Veiga (Portugal) and Radoslav Stoyanov (Bulgaria). Day 2 leader Jonathan Abdellatif is hoping to do more than just make up the numbers.
Paul Fontan took 28th spot for the UK and a prize of $12399
Event 55 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 2 of 3, 1032 teams
28 teams of 2-4 players are still in, with Bon Koo and Bienvenido Caballero the chip leaders going into what should be the final day.
Not many well known players left, but Loni Harwood & Kelly Minkin are part of one of the teams with a decent stack, plus Manig Loeser and Cord Garcia are still in with their teams and the Alex Zeligman team has made it through albeit with only 16BB and other British names shown on the listings are Andrew Wilson & Jack Hardcastle. There may be others in theirs or other teams.
Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 2 of 3, 119 entries
Both John Hennigan and Julien Martini are still in with a chance of a second 2018 bracelet, lying 2nd and 4th of just 13 qualifiers.
Calvin Anderson has the chip lead, but there's still plenty of accomplished names left in - Leah, Urbanovich, Kassela, Kessler, Volpe, Bojang and Forrest included.
This one looks like it is going to be a really good FT
Event 57 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 1 of 3, 696 entries
After 10 hours of play, 104 ladies are still battling for the title, bracelet and $130K with Mesha James holding the biggest stack.
She manoevuered her way to the chip lead during the 40-minute long bubble, winning a massive pot with pocket eights.
Next in chips are Alexis Sterner and Tara Snow, with some reasonably well known names playing on include Kristy Annett, Melanie Wiesner and Gaelle Baumann.
We had the runner-up in this last year in the shape of Deborah Worley-Roberts, this time around it looks like there are two UK players through - Charlotte Godwin and Ishbel Leddy who allegedly hails from that well known place in Sussex, "Burger Hill"!
Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 1 of 3, 595 entries
According to the report, the Day 1 chip lead is in the hands of 2015 November Niner and 2017 bracelet winner Thomas
According to the chip listings page, both Josip Simunic and Aleksandr Shevliakov both have way bigger stacks than Cannuli.
Who to believe?
Outside the very top echelons of the day 1 runners, Yiannis Liperis, Liv Boeree, Conor Beresford, Thomas Waters, Dean Lyall, Markus Kuhnen, Toby Lewis, Max Silver, Ben Morrison, Javier Fernandez, Damien Le Goff, Michael Kane and Robert Heidorn make up a decent GB quota, both in quantity and quality.
Some other names are Jean-Robert Bellande, Robert Mizrachi, Joseph Cheong, Greg Merson, Valentin Vornicu, 2012 PCA winner Kyle Julius and another November Niner, Russell Thomas.
To Start Today
Event 59 - $1000 Super Turbo Bounty NLH, 1 Day Event, $300 bounties
Event 60 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event
Event 61 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH Championship, unlimited re-entry, 1 Day Event
plus the final starting flight of Event 6, the $365 Giant NLH.
Event 54 - $3K NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 4 of 3, 1020 entrants
It's the third bracelet for Portugal, but the first in Las Vegas as Diego Veiga got the better of his 3 Day 4 tablemates
Veiga won $555K in a tournament in Barcelona three months ago, and almost matched that here by taking the $522K first prize.
Barry Hutter finished second, Radoslav Stoyanov third and Jonathan Abdellatif fourth.
Event 55 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 3 of 3, 1032 teams
Last year, a male/female tag team won one of the then two such bracelet events, this year with only this one on the schedule Guiseppe Panteleo and Nikita Luther each won their first bracelets and will split $175K.
Luther was also playing Event 54 at the same time as most of this one (she finished 17th) and only tagged in for Pantaleo in the breaks, but she was done with Event 54 by Day 3 and they split the play reasonably evenly.
The Japanese combination of Kazuki Ikeuchi, Hiroki Iwata and Sho Mori finished third while another international/mixed-gender team of Manig Loeser, Joelle Parenteau and Daniel Weinand finished third.
The highest finishing British players were Andrew Wilson and Ben Phillips who combined with American Eric Penner for 19th spot and $1668 each.
Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 3 of 3, 119 entries
More time needed in Event 56, with the heads-up battle between Calvin Anderson and Frank Kassela undecided at the end of Day 3. Anderson has over a 3:1 lead but with stacks so shallow that even Anderson only has 15 big bets, one hand could easily equalise things.
Heads up has already been going on for 5 hours after the departure of Julien Martini in 3rd and Mike Leah in 4th while John Hennigan departed in 7th.
Event 57 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 2 of 3, 696 entries
Ten players are still left, all American, in the battle to win the Ladies bracelet.
Jill Pike has twisted and turned her way to the top of the chip listings, moving upwards consistently during the last level of Day 2.
Jessica Dawley (two cashes already this series) is in second place and Weiyo Mo sits third.
Also left in include Dannielle Anderson and notable poker reporter Molly Mossey.
The British challenge ended pretty early on Day 3. First Charlotte Godwin went out (80th, $1646) and then Ishbel Leddy followed her out (62nd, $1969).
Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 2 of 3, 595 entries
No confusion about the chip leader after Day 2 after Andrew Graham's five-bet shove with Kings got the better of Anthony Spinella's Jacks.
He has 1.4m chips with only 3 other players above a million - Eric Blair, Dave Stefanski & Justin Adams.
27 are left, with former ME winner Greg Merson, former November Niner Sylvain Loosli, Jean-Robert Ballande and Martin Finger amongst them.
The British challenge rather petered out with Dean Lyall the only one left, with Sergio Aspina Aido also showing as fron the UK but is one of those Spanish players resident here that I seem to being up every night. His biggest win is over $1.3m in an event in the Phillipines which brings us nicely on to event 59.
Event 59 - $1000 Super Turbo Bounty NLH, 1 Day Event, $300 bounties, 2065 entries
This one was a first - the first bracelet ever for a player from the Phillipines. Mike Takayama was the king of the super-turbo bounty, according to the WSOP he seemed to say "All in" about as much as he said "Fold".
He won the bracelet and over $198K when he beat Lorenc Puka heads-up with Matthew Smith in third.
Steve Jelinek added to the top-4 Brit finishes this summer by taking 4th for $65K. Darren Taylor, Gil Thierry, Richard Kellett, Florian Duta, Stefan Fabian, Adam Bromley (yay!), Chun Yan, Dan Laming, Sunny Chattha, Alejandro Torres and Ben Farrell also cashed. (Others may have also won some bounties but they're not shown on the WSOP reports tab)
Shaun Deeb scored a small cash to add more points to his lead in the Player of the Year standings.
Event 60 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 218 entries so far
Onto the next $10K championship event, with 125 of the 218 entries surviving the ups and downs of PLO8 Day 1.
Nathan Gamble has had deep runs in both Event 35 and Event 53 and he's at it again holding the biggest stack in Event 60.
Shaun Deeb tried this one too, but went out in a huge hand also involving Mike Leah & Talal Shakerchi, both Deeb & Leah flopping straights while Shakerchi had a set, which became a house on the river to scoop.
Talal has held on to most of those chips and sits 56th overnight which is also 3rd Brit behind Richard Gryko & Thomas Cazayous with Barny Boatman and Stu Rutter also still in.
Event 61 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH Championship, unlimited re-entry, 1 Day Event
This online event went to Ryan Tosoc ($238K) ahed of Anthony Maio ($175K) and Aussie Joel Feldman ($124K)
Shaun Deeb was also playing this while he was involved in the live events, he busted in 95th spot for $2640
Not much more to say about this one, to be honest.
Event 6, the $365 Giant NLH, final Day 1, total of 8920 entries
The final day 1 of the Giant has now concluded with a confirmed 535 players from across the five flights returning for Day 2.
Alexander Lokhov, Daniel Dealmeida and David Bellacose took the top three stacks forward from Day 1E, no-one getting close to the stack of Day 1B chip leader Jon Turner.
Five British players joined the part from today's play - Neil Edwards, Daniel Toffel, Frank Bastow, Hugh Cairnie and Andrew Abernathy.
No record of Shaun Deeb playing this one but apparently he was railing the action in this at 4am!
To Start Today
Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 3 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days, $888,888 guarantee
Event 63 - $3200 WSOP.com Online NLH High Roller, 1 Day Event
I said yesterday that "More time needed in Event 56", well it wasn't much more time as Calvin Anderson finished the job in just 5 hands.
The big hand was the fourth hand which went all the way to 7th street which left Kassela with just 2 ante chips, which disappeared in the very next hand.
It's the second bracelet for Anderson, he previously won a Stud High/Low bracelet in 2014.
Event 57 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 2 of 3, 696 entries
It was the fourth time Jessica Dawley cashed in the ladies event, but the very first time she has taken it all the way to the bracelet.
She won over $130K after a very short heads-up match with Jill Pike, the latter shoving her last 5BB with K4 and Dawley getting there after flopping a five to go with her holding of 85suited
Third place on the All-American final table went to Lisa Fong.
Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 3 of 4, 595 entries
Action paused after the FT was reached in Event 58, with the extrovert that is Jean-Robert Bellande having a large chip lead over his 5 opponents.
Second place is a British player, Dean Lyall while Kacper Pyzara from Poland is third.
Event 60 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 2 of 3, 218 entries so far
Of the 125 players who entered Day 2, only two dozen finished the day with chips.
Californian Michael McKenna holds the chip lead being the only player with over a million chips. Two players who come very early when names are listed in alphabetical order, Ali Abduljabbar and Michael Abecassis are his nearest challengers.
Some well known names among the 24 include Brandon Shack-Harris, Chris Ferguson, David "ODB" Baker, Phil Galfond and Eli Elezra
Unfortunately no Brits remain, the only cash coming from Thomas Cazayous in 30th for $15000.
Event 6, the $365 Giant NLH, Day 2 of 3, total of 8920 entries
The survivors from all 5 Day 1 flights came together and battled down to a FT of 9.
The biggest stack belongs to Brazilian Renato Kaneoya with Luis Vasquez second and Alexander Lakhov third.
There's a quarter of a million dollars for the winner and some pretty large pay jumps for a $365 event so this FT could get very cagey.
We were so close to having British representation on the FT - Jordan Bamford battled long and hard but went out in 10th spot after losing two successive hands to Vasquez.
Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 3 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days, $888,888 guarantee
Two flights of the Crazy Eights saw 99 and 90 players respectively make it through.
GB players through from 1A - Peter Linton, Alexander Elias, Stavros Kalfas, Paul vas Nunes, Arkadi Kilman and Louis Salter, and from 1B just Peter Akery
Event 63 - $3200 WSOP.com Online NLH High Roller, 1 Day Event
356 different players plus 124 rebuys saw a prize pool of almost a million and a half dollars, with Chance Kornuth taking the bracelet and $341K share of that pool.
David Goodman and Timothy Nuter finished in the minor places, with the top 7 all showing as American.
To Start Today
Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event
plus the final starting flight of the $365 PLO Giant.
It's a first bracelet (after several near misses including 2 second places) for Jean-Robert Bellande.
JRB finished off Scot Dean Lyall (yet another very deep run for a British player) by winning 11 out of the last 12 hands. First prize was $616K, while Lyall more than doubled his career earnings with his $380K payday.
Well known online player Andrew Graham finished third.
Event 60 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 218 entries so far
Taking a break from organising a brand new poker site, Phil Galfond earned his third bracelet in a game that isn't among his regular high stakes online repertoire.
He only took the lead in the event partway through heads-up play with Day 2 leader Michael McKenna who had finished fourth in the $1500 Razz just last week.
On an all-American final table, Ali Abduljabber was the third placed finisher.
Event 6, the $365 Giant NLH, Day 2 of 3, total of 8920 entries
One of the shorter stacks at the FT, Jeremy Perrin's first ambition was to ladder up a few spots. Once had had sixth he aimed for third, and only when he made the Top 3 did he think about winning it.
He beat Puerto Rican Luis Vazquez heads up, with Bulgarian Svetlozar Nestorov third, the top 3 picking up $250K, $155K and $118 respectively.
Alexander Lekhov's fifth place was his second FT of the series.
Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 3 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days, $888,888 guarantee first prize, 2495 entries
The final 2 starting flights of the Crazy Eights were concluded with a familiar name at the top of the 1C listings - Chris Moorman. Several other Brits through - Mark McGovern, Oliver Price, Ian Simpson (who I believe was a guest in the days of Channel 861) and Conor Beresford,
Some other well known names progressing too including Sorel Mizzi, Eric Baldwin, Marvin Rettenmaier & Ylon Schwartz
Flight 1D contributes 138 players to the Day 2 total with Andrew Wilson fresh from his cash in the Tag Team event as top Brit with Andrew Hills and Katie Swift both through too.
Matt Salsberg is the leader from this flight with former ME winner Ryan Riess (and his almost namesake Ryan Weiss) bagging chips and moving on to Day 2.
Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 133 entries so far
A little under half of the starting field made Day 2, with the reigning champion of this event, Chris Vitch, topping the table. He is also looking to become one of a very few players to win bracelets in three straight years.
The good news from a UK perspective is that Stuart Rutter is continiung to have a fine series. 6 cashes including 3 at $10K entry levels could be added to as he lies third overnight, with Daham Wang in second.
Sonny Osman also sits inside the Top 10 with Adam Owen, Benny Glaser and Jason Gray are also through.
Event 11 - $365 PLO Giant, Final starting flight
You wouldn't exepct to see Michael Mizrachi playing too many events at this entry level, but he's had a go at this one and ended the day as the chip leader of this flight.
He is in fact the overall leader across the 5 flights, his 1.845m chips outranking all the other qualifiers. He leapt to the top of the listings midway through the day, had a little bit of a blip, but then hit quads on the penultimate hand to regain the advantage.
There isn't a full list of the qualifiers online yet, if there is anyone particularly noteworthy I'll update later.
To Start Today
It's the big one.
Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s
It doesn't look like we are getting any TV coverage of the early action in the UK this year. Last year we got at least 2 hours per day from the beginning (remember the clash between Vanessa Selbst and Gaelle Baumann?) but I can't see anything on the Programme Guide for today.
Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 2 of 3 , $888,888 guarantee first prize, 8598 entries
Day 2 saw the field reduced to 29 players with a number of familiar names amongst them.
Galen Hall is the chip leader, with the best Brit, Paul Vas Nunes close behind and Hunter Frey third.
Chris Moorman is also still there for the UK, and we also have 7-times bracelet winner Men Nguyen with a very playable stack.
Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 133 entries so far
Chris Vitch's chances of repeating his win of 12 months ago in the equivalent event, and become a rare 3-in-3 successive years are increasing day-by-day, as he held on to his Day 1 chip lead.
Other bracelet holders still in include Brice Yockey, Scott Bohlman and Jesse Martin, but there's no British challenge as all 4 contenders fell by the wayside on Day 2, all before the cash bubble burst.
Event 11 - $365 PLO Giant, Day 2 of 3, 3250 entries
The Grinder, Michael Mizrachi is still in with a great chance of adding this bracelet to the won at the other end of the entry-fee levels, the $50K Poker Players Championship.
He doesn't have the chip lead (that belongs to the almost unpronouceable Srinivas Balasubramanian ahead of Robert Ciccheli and Pete Arroyos but he does comeback with over 30BB on the 9-man FT. (although that will reduce soon after the start of play as there is only two minutes left in the level)
Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1
It may not be the biggest buy-in, or the biggest field size, but it's still the Numero Uno event.
Day 1A is traditionally the smallest of the starting days, but the WSOP will be very happy with the 915 players who stumped up the $10K.
They included a number of former winners, 4 made it through (Joe Hachem, Scotty Nguyen, Eric Seidel & Joe McKeehen) while 3 didn't (the last 2 winners Scott Blumstein and Qui Nguyen, and Jerry Yang)
Timothy Lau navigated the day with the biggest stack ahead of another in the seemingly endless line of Nguyens, this time Truyen Nguyen second and Chris Fraser third.
With over 650 players making it though, there a lot of Brits amongst them so I'm only really touching the surface by mentioning Gavin Cochrane, Jason McConnon, Colin Guthrie, Charles Clark, Chuc Khuu, Scott Margereson, David Douglas and Jonathan Prested all in the top half, plus two names known here David Maudlin and James Rann a little further down.
These players will come back on Thursday for their Day 2.
To Start Today
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I'll try to fix my main machine before tomorrow...
Main Event is looking big in 2018. Flight A was up 16% y-o-y and Flight B has already passed last year's entry number with 3 1/2 hours of registration left. Come get in this event. Last flight tomorrow at 11am.
Chris Bjoin
David Chiu
Mori Eskandani
Bruno Fitoussi
John Hennigan
Mike Matusow
Chris Moneymaker
David Oppenheim
Matt Savage
Huckleberry Seed
Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 3 of 3, $888,888 guarantee first prize, 8598 entries
Play has been halted wit 3 players unable to be split on what was supposed to be the final day.
Just as at the end of Day 2, Galen Hall has the chip lead, with Niels Herrogodts and Eduards Kudrjavcevs the othe two still in the running.
Chris Moorman left the scene early on Day 3 after a Brit-on-Brit clash with Paul vas Nunes (23rd, $27661). PvN took exactly the same payout not much later when he bust in 17th
Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 141 entries so far
Play is ongoing with an Dan Matsuzuki leading Scott Bohlman by about a 5:2 chip lead.
Chris Vitch's attempt at a repeat ended in 4th spot. He takes $108K, 3rd place Ken Aldridge $154K with the top two taking $364K and $225K respectively
Event 11 - $365 PLO Giant, Day 3 of 3, 3250 entries
No need for extra time here as this one is done and dusted.
Canadian Tim Andrew didn't get off to the best of starts - he overslept and missed the first 30 minutes of the FT. It all ended in rather a better fashion with him winning the bracelet and $116K.
Day 2 chip leader Srinivas Balasubramanian was the first to exit, losing three or four big hands in a row.
Michael Mizrachi's attempt for another bracelet foundered in 5th, leaving Andrew to finish off fellow Canadian Robert Ciccheli in third and Pete Arroyos heads-up.
Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1
For the second day in a row, a sizeable increase on last year's numbers - 2378 entries and just under 1900 qualifiers.
The biggest stack was held by France's Smain Mamouni ahead of Samuel Bernabeu.
One player went out on the very first hand, it all went in pre-flop with Aces against Kings and there was a King on the flop to bust the aces.
I haven't got much time to look thorough the list of survivors, so just to pick out a few of the top British players - Tom Hall, Philip Ward, Richard Howe, Paul Fontan, Aeragan Arunan, Rhys Jones, Mark Hammond, Fraser MacIntyre, Richard Gryko, Antony Hallam, Charlotte Godwin, Ben Morrison and former bracelet winner Matthew Ashton.
To Start Today
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